Gustav
Regler
was
born in Germany on 25th May, in 1898. He
served in the German
Army during
the First World War and afterwards joined the
German Communist Party. Regler fled from
Nazi Germany and on the outbreak
of the Spanish Civil War he joined the
International Brigades.
Regler
became a commissar in the army and took part in the defence of Madrid
in the winter of 1936. He was seriously wounded at Huesca on 11th
June
1937. He spent many months in hospital before leaving Spain.
Regler later wrote two
books about the Spanish Civil War, The
Great Crusade (1940) and The Owl
of Minerva (1960). Gustav
Regler died
in 1963.
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